Healthcare: Right, Privilege, or Responsibility?

we are better off with basic preventative health care at he least for everyone. its much cheaper in the long run that treating illnesses later or conditions after they get out of hand.

i hate to use it, but "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" is appropriate here.

 

absolutely. franklin was a smart dude.

not only will health care be cheaper, but the country will be more productive because it workers will be healthier.

 

Yes...BUT...like many other discussions recently regarding the "poor", you can't make being "poor" attractive or people will never be inclined to improve their situation.

It should be BASIC! Not elective, not cosmetic, not because they want it, not because some other class, group, or ethnicity has it...but pure and simple...BASIC!

 

Privilege. Nowhere in the constitution is it stated that every American citizen has the right to health insurance.

Since we are a developed country, I wouldn't want to see people dying in the streets, but free health care (clinics and state ran hospitals) should be heavily monitored to insure they are spending tax payers money very wisely. People who choose to put their well being in the hands of a government hand out should not be allowed to take advantage of the system.

I strongly oppose giving moochers access to anything resembling health "insurance".

 

Bull****...We've been taken for a ride already with our charity hospital system. Giving the poor free insurance would be like getting in a faster car.

Hussein Obama keeps saying that people like my family would have the choice to keep our existing insurance...again, I say bull****. His universal insurance would somehow screw up my plan with Blue Cross..I have no doubt about that. I may not know exactly how it would screw me...I just know it would.

 

You contradict yourself. If it's for the good of the nation, then it's a responsibility, not a right.

Imagine "basic healthcare" as an ammendment to the Bill of Rights. Agree with that?

If you do, then you are very close to being, if not the very definition of, a socialist.

"Life, Liberty, the PURSUIT of Happiness, and free basic healthcare."

:dis:

 

I would argue that basic healthcare is part of that life part.

 

:huh: The reason the question was asked in the first place is because it is NOT, de facto, a right. It is a subjective policy viewpoint, so the candidates gave their opinions.

And we all know that the answer to making systems cheaper and more efficient is to get the government involved.

Yeah, well if you think insurance companies are slow/cheap. Wait until the governement is involved.

A 55 year old man in England complains of pain. It takes him six months to see a specialist. The specialist says, probably cancer. His oncologist appointment is made nine months in the future. His oncologist confirms that he has colon cancer that has spread further throughout his body. The man dies before his first treatment.

My neighbor a few years back. Victim of the socialized medical system he argued with me about right up to the point that he was told when his oncologist appointment would be. He had no options to speed up his service because he'd been hoodwinked into believing that socialism was a good thing. He's dead.

It's just an example. But it's a pertinent example.

Sometimes you have to live with the other side of an argument to truly see how stupid it is.